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Rep. Jay Obernolte introduced legislation in March to reduce the United States’ reliance on China and other foreign nations for critical minerals.

Critical minerals and rare earth metals are used to manufacture consumer electronics, military equipment, electric vehicle batteries, and other advanced technologies vital to America’s homeland security and economic competitiveness.

California's state government, under the leadership of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, is pursuing a wide-ranging climate agenda targeting the transportation sector — actions that could have major economic implications.

Jay Obernolte was a seventh grader when his father came home with a transformative gift: an Apple II Plus computer and a book on how to learn to program.

It didn’t have a disk drive or cassette interface — those were expensive, he recalled — which meant nothing could be saved. Any program he had learned to write had to be retyped when he turned the computer on, starting from scratch.

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As artificial intelligence gets more sophisticated, federal policymakers have to reckon with what that means for national security.

With AI, the weapon can also be the shield. We examine how the U.S. is embracing AI as a tool to bolster its cyber defenses and what Congress is doing on the issue.

...Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) is the chair of the House’s AI task force. He’s also the only member of Congress with a master’s degree in AI and is playing a leading role in developing cybersecurity policy.